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03 November 2020 · 0 min read

2020 or 1984? Can Bitcoin Save Us?

Can Bitcoin save you from a "1984" future? In this video, Bitcoin educator and entrepreneur Andreas M. Antonopoulos talks about whether we are headed for a "1984" style of future, or "Brave New World," and how Bitcoin has the ability to break the monopoly control of money and change the way trust works today.

Timestamps:

0:00 [Question from George Orwell] When I was alive, I wrote a book called '1984. It seems some of you 'lifees' are using it as an instruction manual. Can bitcoin save you?
0:45 2 seminal books that I think anybody interested in the current political climate should read
1:13 1984 by George Orwell
1:58 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2:41 Between Orwell and Huxley we see what has emerged today is really kind of the perfect mix of the two
3:16 Can bitcoin save us? I hope so but maybe in an unexpected way.

This question is from a livestream, which took place on September 26th, 2020.